North Tamborine Travel Guide
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North Tamborine is one of three villages which make up the servicing core for
Tamborine Mountain, behind the
Gold Coast,
Queensland.
Located 62kms from
Brisbane, the pretty North Tamborine village is characterised by great views, tea rooms, galleries, restaurants and gift shops. Once the haunt of the Wangeriburra Aborigines, Mount Tamborine’s forests were targeted by the timber industry late last century until locals succeeded in getting the area declared as Queensland’s first national park in 1908. The roadside monument that celebrates Mt Tamborine's declaration as a national park is located 1km south of North Tamborine, where a three-kilometre track slaloms down to Witches Falls through open scrub and rainforest. Also worth a visit is the Tamborine Mountains Natural History Association Information Centre located in the village of North Tamborine and it is open from 10.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. daily.
North Tamborine is a perfect spot for visitors to base themselves when discovering the rest of Mount Tamborine’s nine fragmentary national parks which cover 1160ha. The rainforest areas have quiet streams and attractive waterfalls, inhabited by diverse Wildlife such as lyrebirds, the elusive platypus, scrub turkeys, lorikeets, whip birds and bower birds.
The name derives, not from the musical instrument, but from the Koori term for the area. The rich volcanic soils also support a diversity of horticulture. Commercial crops include avocado, kiwifruit, avocado and macadamia nuts. Camping is not permitted but the area's many small settlements offer a range of small-scale cottage/bed-and-breakfast style accommodation.